Balanced sentence
Encyclopedia
A balanced sentence is a sentence
that employs parallel structure of approximately the same length and importance.
Sentence (linguistics)
In the field of linguistics, a sentence is an expression in natural language, and often defined to indicate a grammatical unit consisting of one or more words that generally bear minimal syntactic relation to the words that precede or follow it...
that employs parallel structure of approximately the same length and importance.
Examples
- "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." (A Tale of Two CitiesA Tale of Two CitiesA Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature....
) - "White chickens lay white eggs, and brown chickens lay brown eggs; so if white cows give white milk, do brown cows give chocolate milk?"
- From Lincoln's Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863, two powerful examples: "But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate--we cannot consecrate--we cannot hallow--this ground." and "....--that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
- Control it before it controls you - By Sami Musa